Well, the dude Angry_Games (a DFI employee) over at DFI-Street says -2 whatever RAM you have...
Anyone want to help me??? I am anxious to get started now!
Yan
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Well, the dude Angry_Games (a DFI employee) over at DFI-Street says -2 whatever RAM you have...
Anyone want to help me??? I am anxious to get started now!
Yan
For me the -2 version is so much better than any other ones.
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with every -2 bios you need to use yellow slots instead of orange ones right??Quote:
Originally Posted by higherøx
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeathEvil
I tried the yellow slots only with the 702-2, and it works fine. With 702-2 and orange slots, it works fine too.
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Is the 702 BIOS gone from alpha to beta??Quote:
Originally Posted by higherøx
If so, I CAN'T WAIT get to get home (I am stuck away from the new rig for about 2 more weaks now :( :( :( :( :( :() and see how it goes, and I will also have the WCing to install, sheesh, I can't wait until I am home.
Yan Booth
I don't know... I use 702-2 alpha here and didn't get ANY problems.
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For TCCD you should use the 623-3 bios, although I have had better luck with the 518-3 bios.
Gryph
I'm using 623-2 and it works great with my OCZ Rev.2 TCCD.
I've got yet another issue with my Ultra-D board. I was running fine with the 618 BIOS and a Venice 3200+. Last night I was going to put in an X2 4200+, but thought I had to flash to at least the 623 BIOS to get the dual core CPU recognized. Flashed from the bootable BIOS CD at DFI-Street, the flash seemed to work fine. After it finished the machine restarted, went to the LanParty logo and froze, couldn't get into the BIOS. Tried restarting the machine a few times, ended up just sitting at a black screen. Checked the diagnostic LEDs and saw two on, so tried moving the video card, no change. Tried putting the video card back, found that I was now getting 3 diagnostic LEDs. Tried disconnecting all HDDs and optical drives, no change. Tried resetting the CMOS by pulling the battery and moving the CMOS reset jumper, no change.
So here's where I'm at now: my machine was working fine, tried to use the 623-2 BIOS, am now stuck with a black screen/no boot, 3 diagnostic LEDs. The power LED flashes continuously when power's on, the HDD LED stays on all the time.
Any ideas anyone?
Have you tried clearing the CMOS? (thats the little red jumper, above the little battery by 1/4 of an inch, and on the side of the board...) If not, just move it from the pins its on now (WITH THE MACHINE OFF) to the other side (there are 3 pins), DON'T POWER ON, and just let it be like that for about 1 minute.... Then try to restart again.... If that doesn't help.... http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/
Best of luck
Yan
Yep, tried clearing CMOS many times: tried just moving the jumper for a few minutes with power off, then moving it back, no change. Tried moving the jumper and removing battery, then replacing them both, no change. Only thing I haven't tried for resetting the BIOS is holding Insert while booting, will try that tonight.
Any ideas whether this is likely to be an issue with the new BIOS I flashed?
are you using x800xl card?
No, I'm using a BFG 6600 GT.Quote:
Originally Posted by cantankerous
BTW, forgot to mention I've tried both the Venice 3500+ and the X2 4200+ with no results.
I have heard of this happening a lot where X800XL cards wouldn't post after this bios was flashed. I am still on 618 because of this. I have been itching to flash to 623 but was scared for this very reason.
Did you try the second pcie slot over the first? Some have had success trying the second and if that doenst work putting the card back into the first would have it post. If you can get yours hands on a PCI based card try and post with that then in bios change it to default to PCIE first or just reflash to a previous bios. Hope it gets sorted out alright for you.
Yep, I've tried both PCI-E slots, no change. I've just read about a freaky little glitch where some people have had problems but just moving the video card back and forth a few times fixed it, so I guess I'll have a go at that tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by cantankerous
Sadly, no old PCI video cards laying around. Might have to get my hands on one if I can't get anywhere with these other suggestions.
OT, where in Brampton are you located cantankerous?
Try putting one stick of ram in the orange slot, farthest from cpu and reboot?
Yep, I've tried each stick individually in the top (furthest from the CPU) orange slot, no go. Also tried each stick individually in each of the other slots, as well as both sticks together in all permutations. Still no go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sloppy
Hopefully this is going to turn out to be some stupid problem that a very thorough CMOS clearing will take care of... We'll see tonight, but I'd be happy to have any other suggestions people may have as I won't be able to check this thread again while I work on the machine.
hehehe hey Melraidin, just noticed you are not too far off in Burlington. Small world I guess!
Tried a few more things last night, didn't get anywhere new on my machine. I'm wondering what the default DDR voltage is for this BIOS? I know I normally ran my current RAM at 3.1 or 3.2 V.
I tried bringing a stick of my RAM to work today to test, machine at work wouldn't boot with it at 2.6 V and can't change the DDR voltage on this motherboard.
Going to try bringing home a new stick of value RAM tonight to try, hopefully I'll be able to boot and raise the DDR voltage enough to get my current RAM running again.
Does this seem reasonable? Does anyone know what the default RAM voltage is for this BIOS? I'd imagine it'd be 2.6 V or 2.8 V, but confirmation would help. Is it possible that my RAM will simply refuse to run at anything less than 3.1 V?
I think it's 2.7
Quote:
Originally Posted by Melraidin
Also, did you update the bios after pulling the battery? If not, then your using your default one from the factory which could be a problem
Not entirely sure I understand you, so let me try to explain:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sloppy
I had the 618-2 BIOS on this motherboard, I'd flashed to that one when I first got the board. Now that I've flashed to 623-2 I can't boot at all. I've tried clearing CMOS numerous times, which included removing the battery. I'm still unable to boot, so I can't update the BIOS at all.
Are you saying that you believe the BIOS would have reverted to the version that shipped from the factory simply by pulling the battery? I had always thought that the BIOS was stored in an EEPROM that didn't require power to maintain its contents.
I've now been able to boot.
I can only boot with some value RAM and not my OCZ RAM. I've tried each version of the 623 BIOS as well as each version of the 702 BIOS but no success with the OCZ RAM, yet the value RAM boots every time.
I've tried changing the Vdimm while I'm in the BIOS with the value RAM, then switching to the OCZ RAM and booting, still nothing.
Any ideas anyone? I'm probably going to go get some replacement RAM tomorrow, but I'd really like to know what to do with this OCZ stuff I have now. Think there's any chance for a replacement? I don't believe I've done anything horribly wrong, as all was well until this BIOS upgrade.
yeah im getting a 4400+ in ~friday...whaats a good bios...sorry if this has been covered but i need to sleep
623 or 702, I would avoid the 704 right now as I'd be worried about forgetting the problem with it and trying to use the 123% Vcore setting.Quote:
Originally Posted by IYP